Lar­ry Hogan rules out back­ing Har­ris but prais­es her pos­si­ble run­ning mate

GAITHERSBURG, Mary­land — Mary­land Repub­li­can Sen­ate nom­i­nee Lar­ry Hogan is dou­bling down on his pledge to not sup­port either major party’s pres­i­den­tial nom­i­nee despite Vice Pres­i­dent Kamala Har­ris replac­ing Pres­i­dent Joe Biden at the top of the Demo­c­ra­t­ic tick­et.
The for­mer two-term cen­trist gov­er­nor told the Wash­ing­ton Exam­in­er on Mon­day he con­sid­ered Harris’s record too extreme to earn his vote.
“I don’t plan to vote for either of the two major par­ty can­di­dates, and that hasn’t changed at all,” Hogan said. “Harris’s poli­cies are dis­as­trous, far-left poli­cies.”
Hogan, known for his vocal dis­dain of for­mer Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump, bor­rowed an attack line oth­er Repub­li­cans have used on the cam­paign trail to tie Har­ris back to her more lib­er­al Cal­i­for­nia roots as San Francisco’s dis­trict attor­ney.
“I ran for gov­er­nor because they were call­ing Mary­land the Cal­i­for­nia of the East, and I tried to change that,” he said. “I still don’t want to fol­low San Fran­cis­co poli­cies, and I think that some of the poli­cies are wrong for Amer­i­ca.”
He did …